William Shakespeare Quotes
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
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Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
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He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
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Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!
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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
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I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it.
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
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If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
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To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.
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He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
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Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
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The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.